Monday, 30 January 2017

People who build walls get forgotten or derided by history

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When I was a reporter in Oxford, I discovered a file of photos - in the Oxford & County Newspapers amazing press library - of the old ...
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Monday, 16 January 2017

A DIY guide to the No-Trains?-No-Show! passenger strike

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"We are the people of England, that never have spoken yet..." G. K. Chesterton, 'The Secret People' "It looks ...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Join me for a small bit of civil disobedience - with cake...

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I'm certainly not a conspiracy theorist. Quite the reverse in fact. But the bizarre way that the poor put-upon passengers are being pres...
Wednesday, 4 January 2017

How Gandhi could win this for rail passengers: a proposition

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A few days after Christmas, I climbed with my family up to the old motte and bailey castle that crowns Truleigh Hill on the South Downs. On...
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Thursday, 8 December 2016

J'accuse Chris Grayling and Andrew Allner

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The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in Ashurst in Sussex on ...
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Monday, 28 November 2016

The first divorce because of the rail scandal?

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It is almost exactly six months since I had a conversation with a member of Southern Rail's staff on a station near where I live, and it...
Monday, 21 November 2016

Do we really want the BBC to be completely unbiased?

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There is no doubt that, just at the moment, voters tend to want change. Perhaps that is too obvious even to mention, except that it happens ...